The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1887-08-11
SOME EDITORIAL REMARKS.
Expressions Of Our Esteemed Contempt,
raries.

We want pay for what we do in the
advertising line, just as a halter
wants money for his hats. or a
preacher for his sermons. We are
conducting this paper on business
principles, for the purpose of making
our daily bread and with no idea of
imperishable glory.-SmpCIGy Vel
come.
Buy your goods only OF those mer-
chants who advertise. They are
sound business men and intend stay
ing in the country. Those that do
not advertise will soon move or retire
from business. and do not care for a
reputation, hence care nothing for q
name OF square dealing.-Eugeaae
Guard.
There is one party that damns the
PIdindeGleT because it don't say
more in favor of prohibition, and an
other party that damns it because it
says as much as il does; but the
PlGi1ldeGler says it will be con-
damned if it don't say what it pleases
and when it pleases on this question.
-ROSebuTg PlGindedler.
When the home and the tomb of
Washington had to be saved the sub
scriptions for its purchase languished
until Edward Everett traversed the
country with his Grafton on Washing
ton and raised the funds needed.
Now, let Roscoe Conkling appear with
an Grafton on Grant and complete the
monument fund. We believe that If
Mr.. Conkling should come here on
such an errand he could raise quar-
ter of million in California alone. 1t
is worth trying.-S. f. Alta.
A rumor is abroad that ST. John is
to stump Oregon in favor OF prohibi-
ton. Ali decent men who remember
the treachery OF this arch hypocrite
in the campaign of 1884, will depre-
cate such q move on the part of the
prohibitionists of the state. Nothing
but evil can follow in the trail OF such
a false guide. No self respecting Re-
publican could give him a patient
hearing and his campaign would re-
suit in incalculable injury to the
cause he seems to champion. 1t is
time that honest men were given a
chance, If temperance agitation ac-
complishes any gOod.-C0IumJi0
Chronicle.
The time is coming when this coun-
try will have to adopt the Australian
mode of voting. Under this system
names of all candidates are printed
on one kind of ballot furnished by
the government, and no other kind is
used, which is handed TO the voter
when he enters the polling place, and
on which-he indicates by pencil marks
his preferences before he deposits it.
An apartment is furnished voters to
which they can repair, without mo-
lestation from strikers or workers at
the polls, to make out their respective
tickets. The labor party OF New
York will press the adoption of this
system. The reform is one that
should commend itself to every good
citizen, irrespective of what political
faith he is. 1t would cut of great
part Of what are now the necessary
expenses of election, and which fur
nish foundation for levying polit-
ical assessments that in many cases
debar from Office all but the rich or
the unscrupulous.-EdSt OreyOnian.
For drunken, brutal scoundrels like
the one complained of yesterday by q
suffering wife, far advanced in preg-
nancy, who had been knocked down
with bottle and beaten by her hus-
band, we want the whipping post, and
want 1t badly. Only the whipping
post will requite and cure such bru
tality. For these insensate monsters
the whipping post ought to be put
into the constitution of the state,
since, under the constitution as il is,
such law would probably be rejected
as providing an unusual punishment.
Submit an amendment to the cOnsti-
tuition to provide the whipping post
for wife-beaters and ravishers, and
give these wretches a taste of the
only argument that can reach them.
Wife-beating, il the whipping post
were to follow it, would cease to be
an agreeable pastime. A few days in
the county jail is neither penalty nor
restraint.-OregO7liGn.
The president has astutely man.
aged his campaign to date If his
efforts for denomination may be So
denomlnated-and will undoubtedly
be the next Democratic nominee
Ne1oS.
1t is a plain matter of fact that
antagonism begets antagonism, and
it is also just as plain a fact that
the real interests of both labor and
capital are to create better and har-
monious feeling instead of widening
the breach between them, which the
present mode of operation seems to
do.-Albany Herald.
Ii the war was q success. If the
Union was restored, IL we have mo
north. no SOUTH" but one flag, one
destiny, is it not time to admit il
everywhere, and to put down the sell
fish demagogues who seek their profit
In their country's distraction?-JGck-
sOncilIe Times.
1t has been said that the British
can do anything but change
a woman into a man. Sometimes the
same sumptuous range of power has
been claimed for the American con-
gress, but the people here are as
of fencroachments by congress
as by the executive or any other
branch of the government.-S. H.
Alta.
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